Liberia
By: by Sir Harry Johnston. With an appendix on the flora of Liberia, by Dr. Otto Stapf; 28 coloured illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 black and white illustrations from the author's drawings and from photographs by the author and others, 22 maps by Mr. J. W. Addison, Capt. H. D. Pearson, R. E., Lieut. E. W. Cox, R. E., and the author.
Contributors: Stapf, O. b. 1857.
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Natural history -- Liberia; Botany -- Liberia; Vai language; Liberia; Africa, West -- Languages
Notes: Bibliography: v. 1, xiii-xvii.
Paged continuously; v. 1: xxviii, 519, [1] p.; v. 2: xvi, 521-1183 p.
End-papers illustrated in colors.
Table of contents: title: I. Liberia. Ancient history. Normans and Genoese. Portuguese. Pepper and gold. The Guinea trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A Dutch account of Liberia in the seventeenth century. The slave trade. The founding of Liberia. The last phase of the slave trade. Governors of Liberia. Independence. President Roberts. Frontier questions. The loan and its consequences. Recent history. The Americo-Liberians. Commerce. Geography of Liberia. Climate and rainfall. Geology and minerals.; title: II. Flora of Liberia. Fauna. Anthropology. Folklore. Languages: The languages of Liberia. Appendix IX: The Vai syllabarium or alphabet. Vocabularies of Liberian and other West African languages. Index.